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<ul> <li><strong>J&acirc;m&icirc;&#39;s-Mathnaw&icirc;s.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1318 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1317 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1318</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Another good, but modern copy of the <em>seven</em> mathnaw&icirc;s of J&acirc;m&icirc;, beginning with the same prose-preface as the preceding one, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>1.Silsilat-aldhahab, <em>first</em> book, on fol. 3<sup>a</sup>; <em>second</em>, on fol. 56<sup>b</sup>; <em>third</em>, on fol. 81<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>2.Sal&acirc;m&acirc;n u Abs&acirc;l, on fol. 97<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>3-7. The five principal mathnaw&icirc;s of J&acirc;m&icirc;, usually called J&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s Khamsah (خمسۀ جامی), or J&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s Panj Ganj (پنج گنج جامی), with a short general preface, on fol. 114<sup>b</sup>, beginning:</p> <p>قبلۀ همّت خداى شناس</p> <p>هست بر نعمت خداى سپاس الخ</p> <p>See Rosen, p. 220; Rieu ii. pp. 645<sup>b</sup>, 646<sup>a</sup>; G. Fl&uuml;gel i. p. 566, etc. In Bodleian Cat., Nos. 896, 901, etc., and in Rieu ii. p. 645<sup>b</sup>, No. 7, it is prefixed to the Tuḥfat-alaḥr&acirc;r.</p> <p>3.Tuḥfar-alaḥr&acirc;r, with a short prose-preface, on fol. 115<sup>a</sup>, beginning: حامداً لمن جعل جنان الخ, see Rieu ii. p. 647<sup>b</sup>; Rosen, p. 259, and W. Pertsch, Berlin. Cat, p. 877. Beginning of the poem itself, on fol. 115<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>4.Subḥat-alabr&acirc;r, with the prose-preface, on fol. 139<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>5.Y&ucirc;suf u Zalikh&acirc;, on fol. 181<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>6.Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 236<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>7.Khiradn&acirc;ma-i-Sikandar&icirc;, on fol. 288<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>Some pages a little injured, especially the last one.</p> <p>This copy was made for Sir Barry Close, 1810, by Munsh&icirc; M&icirc;r Ibn &lsquo;Al&icirc;, at Ḥaidar&acirc;b&acirc;d.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> <p>No. 1317, ff. 319, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnaw&icirc;, and also at that of the general preface of the Khamsah; the first two pages richly adorned; fine pictures on ff. 5, 39, 42, 60, 66, 74, 108, 135, 144, 150, 167, 202, 225, 230, 244, 256, 281, 285, 290, and 309; headings are wanting on ff. 27<sup>a</sup>-29<sup>b</sup>; size, 9<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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